I love the movie "Whalerider" - Democratic Underground

LostinVA

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Tue Sep-05-06 04:46 PM
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I love the movie "Whalerider"

I love those quiet little movies that pack a wallop.

I still cry at the very, very end of it...

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flamingyouth

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Tue Sep-05-06 05:45 PM
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1. I love that film too

The book is also very good. :thumbsup:

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blondeatlast

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Tue Sep-05-06 05:47 PM
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2. Have you seen "Rabbit-Proof Fence?"

Extraordinary film. I can watch it a million times.

I haven't seen "Whalerider" yet, although I always mean to.

I must, must, must make time for it!

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MountainLaurel

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Tue Sep-05-06 05:49 PM
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5. That film tore me up

Particularly the information that scrolled at the end about what happened to the girls.

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LostinVA

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Tue Sep-05-06 06:38 PM
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12. Oh God... yes

Whalerider is also great because it's a look at Maori culture...

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mainegreen

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Tue Sep-05-06 05:47 PM
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3. You'd have to be a republican, Icelandic or Norwegian not to like it.

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Tue Sep-05-06 05:49 PM
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6. Part Norwegian here...

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mainegreen

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Tue Sep-05-06 05:50 PM
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7. Well, maybe the part that looks at whales and goes 'food' ...

has been bred out of you.
;-) :evilgrin:

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Tue Sep-05-06 05:50 PM
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8. definitely

Whales are friends...

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Tue Sep-05-06 05:48 PM
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4. Me too!

It's a sweet flick! :toast:

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idgiehkt

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Tue Sep-05-06 06:05 PM
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9. !@#$%$#@!

I was trying to remember the name of this movie so hard and couldn't do it...my family was having (another) cookout and I kept asking everyone, believe or not, not one person in that room had seen this movie...I kept saying it's whale-something or other, like "Whale Caller". My Dad chimed in with "Whale Whisperer" but of course that wasn't right.

It's just stunning and I love it. Exactly how I felt growing up as a girl, except I never got to be the tribal leader, lol.

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mainegreen

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Tue Sep-05-06 06:20 PM
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11. Whale Whisperer?

:rofl:

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Submariner

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Tue Sep-05-06 06:09 PM
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10. "Whalerider"? What is that?

The love story between Daryn Kagan and Rush Dumbaugh?

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applegrove

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Tue Sep-05-06 08:22 PM
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13. You could tell what was coming.. you know.. THE TITLE.. but was still

worth it. I wish they hadn't given it away.

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leftofthedial

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Tue Sep-05-06 08:23 PM
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14. It was no Talladega Nights . . .

...

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LostinVA

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Tue Sep-05-06 08:27 PM
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15. True...

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leftofthedial

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Tue Sep-05-06 08:41 PM
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16. maybe if the old Maori dude

would have run around a little in his tighty whities trying to put out the invisible fire . . .

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LostinVA

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Wed Sep-06-06 06:02 AM
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17. hehehehe

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ChickMagic

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Wed Sep-06-06 08:32 AM
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18. Oh, I love it too!

I'm always a weeping mess at the end. I kind of
stumbled onto it by accident and boy, it's one
of my favorites. :cry:

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